Mr. Speaker, the premise of the question is absolute rubbish.
In fact, 1.7 million Canadian families with kids, that is nearly half of the families with kids under the age of 18, will benefit from income splitting and 100% of families, that is four million, will benefit from the total tax package and benefit package announced by the Prime Minister last week, which will deliver an average net benefit of nearly $1,200 for the average family with children. Two-thirds of those benefits will go to low- and modest-income families.
We are going to give families tax relief. We are going to help them with their kids as opposed to delivering that money through an expensive bureaucracy.